Update on everything

Posted by admin on August 22nd, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

I have spoke about my husband mom and his family a few times, and brought up other people who were in need of prayer. We have been going down almost every weekend, to his parents. I worry about his dad and him taking his medications.
While we were down the last time we found out mom and dad will be getting 16 hours of week of help from a group out there. The help is to help clean the house, and make sure mom and dad are being meet. We lift a note in their notebook asking them to please make sure dad is also taking his medications everyday. It is important for him to take his medications. I did get after him a little bit, and stressed how important it was for him to take his medication. I did let him know that if they are not taking their medications they will not be safe at home. Dad had forgotten to take his pills to keep him from getting dizzy several times last week. My husband noticed it. Mom as far as we can tell is taking it everyday.
Mom and dad both do not want to go to a home, and I don’t blame them. We have spoken to them about assisted living apartments, because those are not like homes. Dad could come and go when he wants to, and mom would be able to call for help if she needed. Mom wants to die at home, and we feel this is the best thing for her wishes to be met. Grant it if she can’t be safe at home, I do not believe we’d leave her there, but right now she is safe enough.
I am hoping that the hired help who comes in will be respectful to them, and will not take advantage of them. We have had some trouble with hospice, I will just say they are lucky they spoke with my husband and not I. I would have probably let the woman hear it, I am very out spoken and when I disagree with something or when someone is wrong, I normally set them straight and that what I would do.
They have a lawyer working with them about the couple who took advantage of them, and so far it’s been more threating the couple to make things right.
Mom health isn’t doing good she been sleeping a whole lot more then she used to, dad is doing the avoid what is happening. My husband and I spoke to him, about mom, gave him a chance to have people to talk to, and encouraged him not to run away. Normally when we call home dad is no where to be found and been gone for a long time, mom can’t be lift alone for that long. Dad admitted pretty much that he was doing this to avoid what is happening. My husband told him don’t do that to long because later he couldn’t change the behavior and he would regret not spending more time with mom.
My husband and I aren’t exactly dealing with it neither we are trying too, but both of us are probably more at each other throat. I figured it best to not say nothing to him at all because everything I say been a source of argument or frustrations.
My ankle is almost healed, I still have a little bit of pain in it. The injury will take a little time to heal, but I honestly have to admit I been frustrated with the lack of exercises. I got a new swimsuits that I haven’t even been able to wear. I have lost a little bit of weight even with my inactivity.


One Response to “Update on everything”

  1. admin Says:

    I guess I spoke a little to soon, last night while at church, we got a phone call.

    Hospice had removed my husband mom out of the home. They had found her in a condition that should have never happened. My husband and I live 2 hours away, I wish dad would have called us and told us it was just to much for him, but he didn’t. Mom is very discouraged because she doesn’t want to be in a nursing home, she wants to die at home. I hate to say this and feel bad for feeling this way, but hospice was right. Personally I would have removed her if I was hospice. I really wish I was able to stay with dad and mom to make sure this would have been prevented, but I can not change the past.
    Dad has been lying for quiet a while to my husband and I. This week we are going to have to try to classify him also as a vulnerable adult,this is hard for my husband and I but there is just to much going on and his getting a huge amount of debt. He’s giving people money who are just taking advantage of him. It’s time to step in. He is forgetting his medications, and just went out and broke many years of being free of Alcohol. I am so disappointed in him and how he treated mom.
    Right now I really do covet prayers of prayer warriors because I think Prayer is the only thing that will help my husband and I get through this.
    We talked to hospice and mom signed and agreed to somethings she did not understand, so hospice was refusing to give my husband and I any information. I finally told the nurse, listen we are the medical power of attorney and we don’t even know what happened between now and Sunday when we were down. My husband pretty much came unglued, I was trying very hard not to come unglued with her, because she could hang up and we’d be very frustrated and still know nothing. After about 30 minutes of talking she finally give us information as to why mom was removed out of the home, and where she was, including the room number.
    Dealing with aging parents is very hard, and honestly when my mom gets to this point, I hope it won’t be all on my husband and I. My mom is very close to my sister so it will probably be all on her, but I will try to keep it from being all on her. I know how it can feel like a desert with an oasis no where in site.
    We will be calling my grandma whose gone through this and see if she can give us any guidance in how to deal with dad. We know he will be angry with us. My husband told mom what was going on, and she seemed fine with it.

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